I came across it about 3 weeks or more ago, and i did have a look , well up to the part were it asked for money , so it go a no, and feck off, a day or too later it turned up again and i found how easy it was to tell it was a fake, each time it scanned the pc it came up with different results, how's that for stupid, *thinks perhaps if i tell them the mistake they will cut me in *.

Isn't this just another one of those "Pretend to be Anti-virus programs"? Like Winfix and other junk. That one used to sit on Megaupload and redirect you sometimes. Those things can be annoying; as soon as you hit the page you're basically infected. This can be in the form of a pop-up or page re-direction. I bet it's a nightmare to get rid of too, like most of these things are.

I know I'm safe, and my other computers are since we all use individual firewalls which blocks this kind of stuff. And if it does get through one of the many anti-malware programs will catch it. But I can bet most of my neighbours will end up picking this up if it's as wide spread as Winfix was. Oh joy .

Yeah I'm aware of all that. Got programs to watch all connections in and out of the computer, can see what processes are acting odd. Although I can usually feel when a PC is playing up now and can get to the problem fast. That's what happens when you use the computer everyday for years .

AVG with a 1 year subscription here, just for the Rootkit scanner. Although it found nothing so that was a waste. The free version does everything else fine and I recommend it to anyone whose' computer I go to fix. Had to disable the Web shield and Link scanner on mine though, they just slow IE too much. Just don't click stupid links and you won't need the link scanner. And the firewall conflicts with the Web shield, so one has to be disabled.